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“The terrace was the prodigy of the house, in it the wind passed. I had started to discover the body and had the light for confident.” Eugénio de Andrade. Branco no branco contra a obscuridade.
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A golf course is limited by empty plots for detached houses and scattered trees of various types and heights.
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At the ground level an immense lawn is only interrupted by sandboxes and low vegetation arrangements.
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Above it, between the foliage of the treetops, we discover the distant views of the ocean (to the South) and the mountain (to the North).
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Five white terraces are stacked to allow us to move vertically and experience these different scales of the surrounding landscape.
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The voids between them create space for human and vegetal occupation, constantly hidden or revealed, formalizing the illusion of an interior garden or an exterior house. Source by Corpo Atelier.
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- Location: Vilamoura, Portugal
- Architects: Corpo Atelier
- Constructor: Window to the Future
- Year: 2015
- Photographs: Ricardo Oliveira Alves, Courtesy of Corpo Atelier
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